Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS, ROMAN,

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 17, 1975 - March 17, 1975
Page Size: 554 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100 Bentley (Richard) A dissertation upon the epistles of Phalaris

1699

 GBP - 10.00
101 De la Quintunye (J.) The compleat Gard'ner

GBP - 24.00
102 Halifax (G. S., Marquis of) Miscellanies

GBP - 35.00
103 Anne (Queen) The history of the reign of Queen Anne

1703-1713

 GBP - 32.00
104 Barker (John) The Treasury of Fortification

1707

 GBP - 60.00
105 Book of common prayer

1707

 GBP - 10.00
106 Cibber [Colley] The Double Gallant

[1707]

 GBP - 38.00
107 Congreve (William) Works

1710

 GBP - 80.00
108 [Defoe (Daniel)] Jure divino

GBP - 25.00
109 Almanacs

1715-16

 GBP - 20.00
110 Andrews (William) Almanacs

GBP - 22.00
111 Poetical miscellany

1716

 GBP - 14.00
112 Vida (Marcus Hieronymus) Poematum pars prima

GBP - 14.00
113 [Ward (Ned)] The Republican Procession

GBP - 38.00
114 [Bignon (Jean Paul)] The adventures of Abdalla

1730

 GBP - 16.00
115 Gent (Thomas) Annales Regioduni Hullini

GBP - 18.00
116 Somerville (William) The chace

1735

 GBP - 20.00
117 Sympson (S.) A new book of cyphers

[1750]

 GBP - 9.00
118 Temple (Sir William) Works

1750

 GBP - 14.00
119 [UPCOTT (WILLIAM)] JOHNSONIANA

[c. 1750-1830]

 GBP - 220.00
120 Pope (Alexander) Works

1751

 GBP - 12.00
121 FIELDING (HENRY) AMELIA

1752

 GBP - 100.00
122 [Richardson (Samuel)] The history of Sir Charles Grandison

1754

 GBP - 30.00
123 [Victor (Benjamin)] The widow of the wood

1755

 GBP - 26.00
124 [AMORY (THOMAS)] THE LIFE OF JOHN BUNCLE

1756-66

 GBP - 80.00
125 Muntz (J.) Encaustic

GBP - 48.00
126 Macpherson (James) Fingal

1762-63

 GBP - 30.00
127 Minifie (Margaret and Susannah) The histories of Lady Frances S

1763

 GBP - 70.00
128 [Percy (T.)] Five Pieces of Runic Poetry translated from the Islandic Language

1763

 GBP - 16.00
129 Lardner (N.) A large collection of ancient Jewish and heathen testimonies to the truth of the Christian religion

1764-67

 GBP - 20.00
130 [Sheridan (Frances)] The history of Nourjahad

1767

 GBP - 50.00
131 Bannatyne (George) Ancient Scottish poems Edinburgh

1770

 GBP - 9.00
132 Voyage (A) through hell

1770

 GBP - 26.00
133 [GRAVES (RICHARD)] THE SPIRITUAL QUIXOTE

1773

 GBP - 80.00
134 Sewel (William) The history of the rise New Jersey

1774

 GBP - 6.00
135 Scarron (Paul) The comic romance of Monsieur Scarron

1775

 GBP - 40.00
136 Warton (T.) The History of English Poetry

GBP - 18.00
137 [Mundy (F. N. C.)] Needwood Forest Lichfield

[1776]

 GBP - 16.00
138 Middleton (Erasmus) and others The new complete dictionary of arts and sciences

[1778]

 GBP - 60.00
139 Hayley (William) The triumphs of temper

GBP - 16.00
140 Convivial songster (The)

[1782]

 GBP - 22.00
141 [D'Arblay (Frances Burney, Madame)] Cecilia

1782

 GBP - 55.00
142 Farley (John) The London art of cookery

1783

 GBP - 32.00
143 Thomson (James) The poetical works Glasgow

1784

 GBP - 16.00
144 Lyttelton (G., Lord) Poetical Works

GBP - 50.00
145 [MacNeill (Hector)] Scotland's skaith Edinburgh

1795

 GBP - 16.00
146 Plain sense

1796

 GBP - 30.00
147 Siamese tales (The)

1796

 GBP - 16.00
148 [Moore (John)] Mordaunt

1800

 GBP - 20.00
149 Tooke (W.) History of Russia

GBP - 12.00
150 Ziya Al-Din, Nakhshabi The Tooti Nameh

1801

 GBP - 22.00
151 Hunter (A.) Georgical Essays

GBP - 55.00
152 Strawberry Hill

GBP - 8.00
153 Carlisle (Frederick, Earl of) Poems

GBP - 12.00
154 [Nares (Edward)] Thinks-I-to-myself

1811

 GBP - 2.00
155 Scott (Sir Walter) Rokeby

GBP - 55.00
156 Coleridge (S. T.) Christabel

GBP - 120.00
157 Bewick (T.) A History of British Birds

GBP - 45.00
158 [Smith (H.)] The Tor Hill

GBP - 35.00
159 Hood (Thomas) The plea of the midsummer fairies

1827

 GBP - 7.00
160 Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) Prolusiones Academicae praemiis annuis dignatae et in curia Cantabrigiensi recitatae comitiis maximis Cambridge

[1829]

 GBP - 30.00
161 Keightley (T.) Tale and popular Fictions

USD - Not Sold
162 [Beckford (W.)] Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha

GBP - 40.00
163 Browning (Elizabeth Barrett) The Seraphim

1838

 GBP - 26.00
164 Browning (Elizabeth Barrett) Casa Guidi windows

1851

 GBP - 42.00
165 Marryat (Captain Frederick) Poor Jack

1840

 GBP - 12.00
166 [Hervey (Lord John)] The Question stated with regarded to our Army in Flanders

1743

 GBP - 7.00
167 Reynolds (G. W. M.) Pickwick abroad

GBP - 60.00
168 Soyer (A.) The gastronomic regenerator

GBP - 38.00
169 Longfellow (H. W.) Kavanagh

GBP - 18.00
170 Trollope (Anthony) La Vendee

1850

 GBP - 60.00
171 Trollope (Anthony) How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland

1878

 GBP - 55.00
172 Smith (Alexander) Poems

GBP - 35.00
173 Blair (R.) The Grave

GBP - 90.00
174 Russell (W. H.) A memorial of the marriage of H.R.H. Albert Edward Prince of Wales

[1863]

 GBP - 3.00
175 Newman (John Henry, Cardinal) Apologia pro vita sua

1864

 GBP - 10.00
176 Newman (J. H.) A Letter addressed to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk

GBP - 40.00
177 Newman (J. H.) The dream of Gerontius

GBP - 10.00
178 Shakespeare (William) Comedies

GBP - 16.00
179 Rimmel (Eugene) The book of perfumes

1865

 GBP - 10.00
180 MORRIS (W.) THE EARTHLY PARADISE

1868-70

 GBP - 230.00
181 Morris (W.) The Life and Death of Jason

[1869]

 GBP - 50.00
182 MORRIS (W.) The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblings

1877

 GBP - 160.00
183 Swinburne (Algernon Charles) Chastellard

GBP - 6.00
184 The National Memorial to H.R.H. the Prince Consort

1873

 GBP - 3.00
185 Banks (Mrs. Linnaeus) The Manchester Man

GBP - 50.00
186 Donnelly (Ignatius) The great cryptogram Chicago

1888

 GBP - 2.00
187 Arnold (M.) Geist's Grave

1881, 1892

 GBP - 35.00
188 Creighton (Rev. Mandell) Queen Elizabeth London, Paris

1896

 GBP - 3.00
189 Flute Music New York

GBP - 10.00
190 Bible (Polyglot)

GBP - 3.00
191 Carlyle (T.) Works

1911-12

 GBP - 75.00
192 NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY

1895-1922

 GBP - 80.00
193 Churchill (Sir Winston) My African Journey

1908

 GBP - 22.00
194 Rossetti (D. G.) Letters

GBP - 42.00
195 Cervantes (M. de) The History of Don Quixote

GBP - 10.00
196 Mathers (E. P., translator) Eastern Love

GBP - 18.00
197 Binyon (Laurence) The poems of Nizami

1928

 GBP - 16.00
198 La Fontaine (J. de) Tales and novels

1923

 GBP - 22.00
199 Grant (James) British battles on land and sea

GBP - 20.00
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.